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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
That's the thing, it's not anything other than a gun problem, because the only place this happens with any regularity is in places with easy access to guns: The US and the Third World.
This has nothing to do with man's state in nature it's entirely about easy reliable access to the means to create mass carnage.
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Obviously easy access to assault rifles plays a big part in this, and the wilful folly of America lawmakers allowing their sale to civilians is impossible to overstate.
But alienation and rage also plays a part. Most men in Texas had guns 60 years ago, but mass shootings were almost unheard of. Societies are not all equal when it comes to how many people (and by people here read men) are profoundly alienated from society at large, and act out that alienation with acts of mass violence. For whatever reason, men in Japan, Switzerland, and Costa Rica don't carry acts of mass violent revenge against the rest of society in anything close to the frequency American men do today.
You don't have to ignore the role played by easy access to guns to also look into the social conditions that foster male fury.